Improvement in tool handles



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Letters Patent 1Y0. 64,006, dated April 23, 186i'.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOOL HANDLES.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I,LUTHER H. FARNSWORTII, of Hudson, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tool Handles; and do hereby declare the sanieto be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of whicl1- Figure 1 is a side View.

Figure 2, a longitudinal section; and t Figure 3 a transverse section of a tool handlemade in accorda-nce with my invention.

Figure 4 is a top view of the furcated and shouldered stock.

Figure 5 is a side view.

Figure 6, a top view; and

Figure 7 a bottom or lower end view of the woodenheart piece placed within the fureated stock.

The handle consists of three principal parts, viz, the inetallie shouldered and furcatcd stoel: A, the wooden heart piece B, and the collar or ferrule C. The furcated stock has a series of prongs, ct, extended froma head, b, each of such prongs being provided with n. shoulder, c, on its upper part, the whole bcing'arranged as repre- .f sented. The collar lits on and encompasses the several prongs at their upper ends, and rests on and against their shoulders v. The wooden heart piece Bis formed to lill the space within the steek A, its sides being grooved, as shown at d d, to receive the prongs. The outer surfaces et" the parts of the heart piece, which go between the prongs, are curved in correspondence with the outer surfaces o'' the prongs. The heart piece is to receive and held the shank ofa chisel or other tool to be fixed to the handle. The prongs, by extending from the head up to within and against the collar, prevent the heart piece from being split or injured by blows of a hammer or mallet on the head.

I claim the combination and arrangement of the metallic shouldered prongs and the head constituting the stock A, with the metallic collar C and the heart piece B, the whole being make substantially as specified.

I also claim' the stock A, made with the head, the series ofprongs, and the shoulders there-0f, as described.

LUTHER Il. FARNSWORTH.

Witnesses R. II.'EDD\', SAMUEL N. Prruu 

